...What characterises academic writing? It is perhaps tempting to think that Academic Writing (AW) is guided by a fairly homogeneous set of rules and aspects. This is so, possibly because we frequently see books with titles such as Academic Writing and Writing Academic English, and we hear from fellow students, teachers, colleagues and friends about the need for skills within written academic English. However, even if there arguably are core aspects and skills, it is important to acknowledge the fact that many differences exist when it comes to how certain disciplines grapple the challenges of writing academic discourse. The question, then, is whether we should rather talk about Academic Writings, to highlight this heterogeneity. A General Approach Indeed, in the debate on teaching approaches to Academic Writing (AW), there are proponents of a more generalised stance. The advocates of such an approach argue that there are commonalities across academic writing and that a number of core skills can and should be taught (see e.g. Bloor & Bloor, 1986). These core skills could have to do with features of academic prose and text-type patterns that recur in academic writing across disciplines. One of the more frequently proposed arguments in favour of a generalised approach is the lack of subject knowledge and expertise among writing instructors. Such lack of knowledge places restrictions on what can be taught and consequently focus should be placed on more broad principles. Examples...
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...In: Social Issues Climate Change Reaction Paper 1. CLIMATE CHANGE The Philippines has been considered as a highly vulnerable to current (i.e. natural disasters), as well as future climate-related risks due to its geographical location and physical characteristics. It lies along the Western Pacific Basin (a generator of climatic conditions such as monsoons, thunderstorms, Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone, typhoons, among others) making it a path of an average of 20 tropical cyclones annually, nine of which makes a landfall. According to Wikipedia, climate change is a change in the statistical properties of the climate system when considered over long periods of time. The term, however, sometimes used to refer specifically to climate change caused by human activity, as opposed to changes in climate that may have resulted as part of Earth's natural processes. The term climate change, hence, has become synonymous with global warming. Any scientist will acknowledge that earth’s climate has always been changing. Increasing emissions into the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (such as methane) have created the so-called “greenhouse effect,” leading to overall global warming. However, some studies would also say that the intensity of solar radiation that correlates positively with global warming, provides alternative view to the carbon dioxide-greenhouse interpretation. Scientists also believed (with media exaggeration) that sea levels will rise by several...
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...EVS2000 - Research Paper and Presentation Outline Global Climate Change Instructions: For your research paper and presentation, you’ll be researching global climate change. Your first assignment is to fill in the details of this outline. Here's how it will work: 1. Using this outline template, fill in the details on the open lines below.You must complete every line of the outline to receive full credit. You may add additional lines, as you see fit. 2. By Sunday, 11:59 PM (Mountain), upload your completed outlineto the Dropbox. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Outcome 1a, 2a-c, 2e, 3a-b, 4a-b, 5a, 6a-e 1) Introduction a) What is climate change? b) i) Briefly state the causes of climate change (1) (2) (3) ii) Briefly state the impact of climate change (4) (5) (6) iii) Briefly state the reaction to climate change (7) (8) (9) iv) Briefly state the potential solutions to climate change (10) (11) (12) 2) History and Causes of Climate Change c) Explain the impact of humans and other living creatures upon the environment v) Identify the impacts of human overpopulation on climate change (13)...
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...My Reactions On: CLIMATE CHANGE ISSUES AND GREEN OPPORTUNITIES A. The Report Content, Organization And Presentation The topic of “Current issues, concerns, trends, challenges and opportunities of running an offshore business” specifically on the “Climate change issues and green opportunities” interests me as a topic for this reaction paper because for the past years now, the world has given much attention to this issue. Businessmen now are very concerned on how to transcend and adopt to green opportunities which is the trend right now since consumers are also very much conscious on the effect of greenhouse emissions and global warming to their health and to mother nature. The topic stimulates more my interest because I want to be aware on how companies advance on an climate-friendly business models, and operations which will result to eco-friendly products and services which are of course appropriate to the climate of the location of their businesses. B. The Relevance And Applicability Of This Report In My Life and In My Environment At Present And In The Future. This report is very relevant to me because it made me become more aware on the effects of climate change not only to myself, to the environment, but also to the business sector on what it can do to the future of the economy. As an individual, at present I might not be that concern on what the effects of climate change would be, but I cannot hide nor deny it that there is really an effect. In addition, the topic...
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...Peoples Attitudes towards Climate Change A group paper is presented to the faculty of Mindanao University of Science and Technology – Jasaan Campus presented by Steven Castino, Geneth Caturan, Marjohn Deleon, John Henry Mercado, Julan Aricayos, Kimbert Pacana, Joseph Sumayang, June Rey Tarpin, Richard Nacua, Joel Cabelto, and Rey Carlou Cailing. I. Introduction Climate Change or Global warming is the increase of the average temperature of earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and landmasses. Scientists believe earth is currently facing a period of rapid warming brought on by rising levels of heat-trapping gases, known as greenhouse gases, in the atmosphere (Harvey, 2012). Ironically, “It is not climate change that is our problem, but the attitude of people that should be addressing the problem” (Fernandez, 2012). Most previous studies evaluating the cause of awareness to the people towards the climate change is the effects of people’s attitude towards climate change (Gallup, 2008; Barret & Dannenberg, 2012). Most of the studies confirm the explicit and implicit attitudes towards climate change suggest targeting hidden thoughts a better way to change people’s behavior (Corner, 2010; Kormos & McIntyre, 2011). There are also findings that proved the countries to firm one another to build human activities towards climate change. This paper is intended to transport cognizance on the necessary ideas on what are the people’s perception towards climate change that have been affected...
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... Mikelle Justin L. Raiz Aicon R. Villanueva BSBA 1-7 What is climate change? Climate change is a long-term shift in the statistics of the weather (including its averages). For example, it could show up as a change in climate normal’s (expected average values for temperature and precipitation) for a given place and time of year, from one decade to the next. We know that the global climate is currently changing. The last decade of the 20th Century and the beginning of the 21st have been the warmest period in the entire global instrumental temperature record, starting in the mid-19th century. Climate change, also called global warming, refers to the rise in average surface temperatures on Earth. An overwhelming scientific consensus maintains that climate change is due primarily to the human use of fossil fuels, which releases carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the air. The gases trap heat within the atmosphere, which can have a range of effects on ecosystems, including rising sea levels, severe weather events, and droughts that render landscapes more susceptible to wildfires. Climate change is a large-scale, long-term shift in the planet's weather patterns or average temperatures. Earth has had tropical climates and ice ages many times in its 4.5 billion years. So what's happening now? Since the last ice age, which ended about 11,000 years ago, Earth's climate has been relatively stable at about 14 °C. However, in recent years, the average temperature...
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...1 | Describe chemical tests for water using cobalt (2) chloride and copper (2) sulfate | Describe methods of rust prevention, specially paint and other coatings to exclude oxygen | | 2 | Describe, in outline the treatment of the water supply in terms of filtration and chlorination. | Describe the need for nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium containing fertilizers | | 3 | Name some of the uses of water in the home | Describe the displacement of ammonia from its salts | | 4 | Describe the composition of clean water as being approximately 79% nitrogen, 20% oxygen and the remainder as being a mixture of noble gasses, water vapor and carbon dioxide. | State that carbon dioxide and methane are greenhouse gases and may contribute to climate change | | 5 | Name the common pollutants in the air as being carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen and lead compounds | Describe the formation of carbon dioxide | | 6 | State the source of each of these pollutanatsCarbon monoxideSulfer dioxideOxides of nitrogen from car exhausts | State the sources of methane, including decomposition of vegetation and waste gases from digestion in animals | | 7 | State the adverse effect of common pollutanats on buildings and on health | Describe sacrificial protection in terms of the reactive series of metals and galvanizing as a method of rust prevention | | | Supplement | | 8 | Describe the separation of oxygen and nitrogen from liquid air by fractional distillation | Describe...
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...An Inconvenient Truth Reaction Paper With more and more affects of global climate change happening worldwide, an effort had to be made to publicize the dilemma, so that the public could truly understand the seriousness of the problem. For many years efforts have been made by oil companies and other lobbyist organizations to cover up the truly horrific effects of global climate change and the fact that human use of fossil fuels is the cause. Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth, was just what the public needed. Not only does it break down global warming to its basic concepts such as the greenhouse gas effect and how the carbon dioxide release from the combustion of fossil fuels affects it, but it also details the global effects that will take place if carbon dioxide levels begin to rise. Throughout the movie, Al Gore uses strong visuals to help emphasize his point. I believe one of the most effective visuals that he uses is the projected carbon dioxide level. Using the cherry picker lift to literally point out where the levels will be compared to the past levels was very eye-opening. Also, the facts he brought to light about the secondary effects of global warming were astonishing. Not only does it have the primary effects you would expect from any type of climate change, but he also links the effects on the hydrological cycle to the escalating violence and genocide Darfur. Water riots from shortages have been documented in that part of the Sudan and...
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...Environmental Pollution Environmental pollution is one of the biggest problems the world faces today. It is an issue that troubles us economically, physically and everyday of our lives. The contamination of the environment is also being linked to some of the diseases that are around currently. Yet, most people do not know about this problem. This shows that environmental pollution is becoming an increasingly worse problem that needs to be taken care of as soon as possible, not only for the good of the environment but also for the people that live in it. Many factors are present for why environmental pollution has become such a large issue in the world. However, if the people of the world were to address the issue it would definitely help both the environment and it’s people. There are many activities that can be done by both the common citizen to the governments of the world, which could severally improve the world’s environmental problem. On the other hand, if the current way the world’s environmental problem is being handled continues, catastrophic consequences can follow for the future population. http://www.exampleessays.com/viewpaper/12389.html Nowadays environmental problems are too big to be managed by individual persons or individual countries. In other words, it is an international problem. To what extent do you agree or disagree? An essential problem of the 21st century is world pollution. Currently the environment is so much contaminated that urgent measures...
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...about the causes of global warming and what it is doing to our planet. Being an environmentally involved citizen and growing up with conservative Republicans as parents, I was torn between not really liking Gore and this extreme reality that I felt was an impending doom on Mother Earth. The day before my writing class my dad called me and I brought up the fact that I was watching Gore’s film; his reaction was, “I’m paying for you to do that?” I tried to tell him it wasn’t about Gore and when I brought up global warming he claimed it was a scheme to get money and that our wor... ... middle of paper ... ... Lynch, David. “Corporate America Warms to Fight Against Global Warming.” USAToday.com. 5 June 2006. 2 April 2007. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2006-05-31-business-globalwarming_x.htm Martins, Pim. Health and Climate Change. UK: Earthscan Publications Ltd., 1998. Peterson, Anne Kristen, Jurg Rohrer. Time for Change: Cause and Effect of Global Warming. 27 March 2007. http://timeforchange.org. United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Climate Change. 20 February 2007. 27 March 2007....
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...Global Warming: Are Humans the Cause? Amanda McCauley Rasmussen College Author Note This paper is being submitted September 14, 2014, for Charles Harris’s G328/EVR3410 Section 03 Human Uses of the Environment course. Global Warming In the past couple decades; global climate change has become a topic of concern by many professionals and experts. After much debate over the topic of global warming, it has been agreed that global warming does exist and is a serious danger to the Earth. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has stated that the consensus of scientific opinion is that Earth's climate is being affected by human activities (Oreskes, 2004). The United States and China are responsible for the most global carbon emissions, accounting for 40 percent (McKibben, 2012). Arising from the production and consumption of goods and services; a lot of greenhouse gas emissions are created through agriculture. With large pushes to “Go Green”, many companies have made strides in changing their process of production, types of products, and promotions due to the influence of the public, and the necessity to reduce their carbon footprint. Global warming has become a danger that cannot be overlooked like it has in the past several years. It is an exponentially growing problem, with very few things being done to prevent and reduce problems. ‘Planet Earth’s average temperature has risen just under 0.8 degrees Celsius with current reports which has led to some damage...
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...Inconvinient Truth COPENHAGEN – Addressing the climate summit here Thursday, President Arroyo stressed the vulnerability of the Philippines to extreme weather events, but curiously stopped short of joining the clamor from other developing countries for increased international funding that will allow poor nations to cope with the negative impact of climate change. Arroyo cited a United Nations study that showed the Philippines as one of the top 12 countries in the world facing the greatest risk from hurricanes and other natural disasters. “In fact we top the list of nations most in danger of facing more frequent and more intense storms when the impact of climate change intensifies," she said. Mrs. Arroyo noted that the recent destruction from tropical cyclones Ondoy and Pepeng caused an estimated $4.4 billion in damage to the country’s most populous regions of metropolitan Manila and urban centers in the northern Philippines. An Inconvenient Truth Reaction Paper The award winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, by Al Gore is an eye opener and somehow it is a wake up call for me. I have heard about global warming way back high school and heard it often when I entered college. I knew the meaning of the term global warming and that was it. I knew a little about it, what causes global warming and how fatal are its effects to Earth. And honestly, I never really cared. I was one of those people who treat it very lightly and after watching An Inconvenient Truth...
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...ENS-314 Global Environmental Change Living in the Environment: Concepts, Connections, and Solutions, 16th ed., by G. Tyler Miller, Jr., and Scott E. Spoolman (Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole CENGAGE Learning, 2009). FINAL PROJECT Climate Change Prepared by Student at Thomas Edison State College Assignment Distributed Prepared for Global Environmental Change (ENS-314) Thomas Edison State College Technical summary of climate change Overwhelming scientific study demonstrate the earth’s atmosphere is warming rapidly, mostly because of human activities, and that this will lead to significant climate change during this century (Miller, Spoolman 2010). Climate change throughout history has affected evolution and natural selection, moving continents and dispersing populations throughout the world with these movements. Until the industrialization of the human population a hundred and sixty years ago our atmosphere...
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...Joanna Abele American Intercontinental University Unit 1 Individual Project BUSN300-E-1205B-02 Lowe Division Capstone 1/11/2013 Abstract This paper talks about global warming and what is really to blame. In this paper the author will give their opinion on what is to blame and why they feel this way. And if global warming is really going on or if it is just people looking to try and justify their opinions. * Climate changes * Too hot * Too cold * The sea animals * Animal population on the rise * Animal population on the down fall * Caused by humans * Why do you think humans caused global warming * why do you think it is not caused by humans * Is the theory scientifically credible * Does it pose a serious environmental and health risks Global Warming: Fact or Fiction What do we know about Global Warming? Is it man made, or is it due to the way the earth shifts naturally that causes it? Some experts say the extreme weather changes are due to the increase in the average global temperatures. Some also say the natural human activities might be one of the contributing factors for the global warming, causing an increase in the average temperatures. Let us first look at what the earth is doing in order to cause the global warming situation. Ocean heat is rising; the temperature over the oceans is also rising. Now I could say that it is caused by us taking some of the fresh oxygen out of the air by cutting the...
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...Communication: Defensive Communication Share Jack Gibb © One way to understand communication is to view it as a people process rather than a language process. If one is to make fundamental improvement in communication, one must make changes in interpersonal relationships. One possible type of alteration—and the one with which this paper is concerned—is that of reducing the degree of defensiveness. Defensive behavior is defined as that behavior which occurs when an individual perceives threat or anticipates threat in the group. The person who behaves defensively, even though he or she also gives some attention to the common task, devotes an appreciable portion of energy to defending himself or herself. Besides talking about the topic, he thinks about how he appears to others, how he may be seen more favorably, how he may win, dominate, impress or escape punishment, and/or how he may avoid or mitigate a perceived attack. Such inner feelings and outward acts tend to create similarly defensive postures in others; and, if unchecked, the ensuing circular response becomes increasingly destructive. Defensive behavior, in short, engenders defensive listening, and this in turn produces postural, facial and verbal cues which raise the defense level of the original communicator. Defense arousal prevents the listener from concentrating upon the message. Not only do defensive communicators send off multiple value, motive and affect cues, but also defensive recipients distort...
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